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The decrease comes after a year when the maternal death rate was the highest in nearly six decades: more than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth.
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After years of high rates, the country hit a new high during the pandemic, far exceeding rates in other developed nations. Black women are at especially high risk.
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Florida is one of the least generous states when it comes to public health insurance. About 1 in 6 women of childbearing age here are uninsured, reducing their access to quality prenatal care and making it more difficult to begin a healthy pregnancy.
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That's what epidemiologist Jenny Cresswell of the World Health Organization said of death rate data in a new report she authored — "equivalent to almost 800 deaths a day or a death every 2 minutes."
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Fifteen states haven’t moved to extend Medicaid coverage for new moms beyond the minimum of 60 days. But at least four are expected to consider proposals in upcoming legislative sessions.
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Among almost 4 million births in 2021, nearly 52,000 occurred at home, a CDC report showed. That's up about 12% from 2020, following a 22% rise from 2019 to 2020.
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Many patients enroll in government-funded Medicaid health insurance when they become pregnant, because qualifying income levels are higher than for those who aren’t pregnant.
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Despite years of efforts to reduce the use of C-sections in delivering babies, rates remain high, especially in the South. Black women, particularly, are more likely to give birth by C-section.
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A bill under discussion in the state House would help babies born into low-income families get access to breast milk when its needed.
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Florida lawmakers appear to be fast tracking a controversial bill that seeks to regulate the state’s pregnancy crisis centers. The measure that wades...